kinda depressing that we as a society still have much to learn from a story written in the 1830s…

kinda depressing that we as a society still have much to learn from a story written in the 1830s…
girl who has never gotten over anything in her life watches film about relationships, change and what ifs: the results will shock you! (she cried)
another week, another ghibli rewatch!
this film is always a comfort but never more so than tonight. after a week of news story after news story talking about male violence against women, reasserting the painful truth that no matter how hard we try we simply aren’t safe, seeing a world where a 13 year old girl can fly off into the unknown to discover herself, without these concerns, is such beautiful escapism. thank you Hayao Miyazaki for your incredible heroins and creation of worlds where we can escape our painful reality, even if just for a couple of hours <3
if a couple i was having dinner with suddenly started role playing in front of me i would simply leave.
The best film i never ever, ever, under any circumstances, want to watch again
incredibly real of this film to make the big bad a balding incel with delusions of grandeur
the more i rewatch old barbie favourites the more i understand where my own feminism began !!
i know the whole thing is ‘not all girls who play football are lesbians’ etc etc, but did they consider… it would be better if they were?
this film saw my heart beating in my chest, reached in and flipped it a few times, before straight up yanking it clean out it, only to then hand it back to me in a little bouquet of flowers with a post it note saying ‘sorry :)’
melodramatic? undeniably. lacking in structure and narrative coherence? I’ll give you that. derivative, cliched, trying a bit too hard at times? these could all certainly be argued.
but the visuals, the *yearning*, the…
me for most of the film: this is beautiful, why has it taken me four years to rewatch it?
me, for the last 30 minutes: *sobbing* oh…